One thing missing from this discussion: people who in the past bought the game are now required to pay for it again in order to have it ad-free! That's the reason for the big influx of 1 star ratings in the AppStore.
Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haven't tried if it works but my android version (6.0.1) seems to have an option for disabling internet for specific apps. Note that I haven't rooted (yet). Going to Settings -> Data Usage -> Settings will show me a list of apps and I can chose between following four options Allow, Forbidden, Wi-Fi only and Data only.
Which manufacturer? ASUS? My Motorola Moto G4 Play has Android 6.0.1 too and the only option present is to restrict background data.
OnePlus (3T) for me. (on the Data Usage page it was the small dots menu button in the top right hand corner.)
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a shame that did such a lousy job with the emulation. It's one thing to be inaccurate and fast or accurate and slow, but making a slow and inaccurate emulator for the Genesis in 2017 is super lame.
Its not their first offense in this domain, I remember buying a DS collection of Sonic games and their was slowdowns, while in the meantime free emulators can do the job without problems. Monetizing 20 years old games is already easy money, they could at least do it as well as people doing it on their free time...
Actually I will say one thing, maybe not on their iOS releases but for their recent 2D sonic remakes on consoles they actually hired from the Sonic fangame community (Christian Whitehead IIRC) to rewrite the engines and they run ridiculous good.
So yeah for once the paid version was as good as a passion driven fan version.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what about Google? They basically employ you to look at ads and then pay you in being able to check your emails?
You can't really compare some classic games to Google's product offering, there's a huge difference in the scale of value here.
Wheres the tipping point for when the product offering is enough for it to be ok to be supported by ads and data?
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#125The Sonic game uses the most vile type of in-app ad. The ad requires you to play Game of War for some indeterminate amount of time. You are made to play it after every stage. I hope Sega changes this, it basically makes their game unplayable.
I seem to recall you can close out of it after 5 seconds without playing unless they've got different tech for the sega ones. Either way it for sure means I'd never ever play a game that had such a shitty and obnoxious ad.
Other fun patterns: - Fuck you for playing games on mute whilst listening to music, Ima override that with super loud obnoxious bleeping for my ad - This ad is just going to keep pretending you clicked on it and open the app store, even though you didn't - Top new feature ad: freeze phone when wifi drops (because I'm on the underground and signal is transient).
I'm fine with a pop up ad that I can x out of straight away to "pay" for a free app. That's a fair deal, same as advertising in a magazine etc. But the obnoxious phone hijacking appstore opening stuff just ensures I'm angry and sure as hell not downloading.
I simply don't understand how those make people not annoyed and actually generate conversions
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#126Wait, I don't get it, it's "every console game" or juste those 5 ? Where is my Street of Rage ? :(
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#127Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…
> Having a 4 year old son
> games that he likes to play on my iPhone
Dude those thing are psychological traps aimed to break a 30yo-something will, what do you think they'll do to a 4yo?
Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
#128Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…
I use the AdBlock app for iOS, it sets up a dummy VPN that blocks a lot of ad servers. Works pretty well.
Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most ads don't work without a connection, so for games that allow it, I just disable Wifi on my son's iPad. Works great for e.g. Zombie Tsunami, it's actually a way better experience without wifi.
This hack works. I wish there was way to disable internet for some apps. I am sure that's possible on android.
ISTR that's coming in iOS 11.
Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
#130The Sonic game uses the most vile type of in-app ad. The ad requires you to play Game of War for some indeterminate amount of time. You are made to play it after every stage. I hope Sega changes this, it basically makes their game unplayable.
I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary cost.
freemium?